During the Renaissance, the Medici family in Florence, Italy wore purple. (6) Since Antiquity, the color of kings and emperors, but mostly nonexistent in Renaissance and Medieval era due to near extinction of the snail used to make imperial purple. Imperial purple disappeared in 1453.
1 cup water -- 1/2 cup oatmeal. 1.5 [one and one-half cups] water -- 3/4 cup of oatmeal. Twice as much water as oats. The oatmeal to water ratio of 2 to 1 works for rolled oats. For steel cut oats, the proportion is 4 to 1 -- 1 cup of water and 1/4 cup of steel cut oats.
1 The longer the oats cook, the softer they will be.  To prepare oatmeal with egg whites and butter, boil 1 cup water and add Â¼ cup steel cut oats or Â½ cup rolled oats. Let the oats cook for 1 hour and then add 250 grams of butter and 100 grams of egg whites once the oatmeal is done cooking. You can also add a dash of salt.